Sentences with phrase «seem pretentious»

Gimmicks seem pretentious and they are often more annoying than enjoyable.

When she asks what you're up to on a Friday night, don't seem pretentious and lie about having to go a tear up the clubs with your guys.

This makes the subtitle employed for the book seem pretentious.

Somehow, this didn't seem pretentious at the time.

While this might seem pretentious or misguided, the real story is how entrepreneurs are finding spiritual guidance and using their powers to do good in the world.

Some pastors live up to their role very beautifully But often they are anxious about seeming pretentious or exclusive, and this keeps them from filling the role that they need to fill for the sake of other people.

Before I stayed away from all tactics talk because it seemed pretentious.

«There's certainly power and ambition, which you can not deny, even if it seems pretentious,» he said.

Not exact matches

Cooley seems to recognize that your work speaks for itself, and that presenting a pretentious persona isn't what makes others believe in your success.

It seemed at once pretentious and unfocused — characters too cursorily sketched to sustain interest, the clanking machinery of the plot irritatingly audible, and the narration shifting unsatisfactorily from lucid monologue to leaden description.

It seems to me that in passage after passage the Bible condemns man's pretentious notion that his own powers are sufficient to achieve justice and secure his rights.

Atheistic existentialism holds that there is no meaning in the universe apart from our obligation to create meaning in our own lives — and somehow that seems very pretentious.

This massaged + chopped kale salad -LCB- massaging kale isn't as pretentious as it seems, get the scoop below -RCB- with cabbage and nectarines is super light yet grounding all at the same time.

If you weren't just being a pretentious snob, then it was probably because the wine seemed «corked» — had a musty odor and didn't taste quite right.

While the title might seem a little bit pretentious, it is the one recipe I use when it comes to baking keto bread.

These seem pretty pretentious at first glance, but with a little imagination you can get sensational summer skirt outfits.

A much more restrained Xavier Dolan after his pretentious previous film, and he displays an assured direction and firm control of this suspenseful thriller, even though the narrative seems to move too fast as the characters start to act in ways that are not always convincing.

one of those awkwardly pretentious attempts to seem hip and profound by simply depicting people acting really goofy

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

It adds intrigue into this mysterious suicide circle and the individual stories, while the constant voice over monologues are probably the worst (as in self - indulgent and pretentious) part of the movie other than the length, at least seem to be hinting that they're all heading toward the same end.

But in «The Crossing Guard,» for which Mr. Penn wrote the screenplay, he and Mr. Nicholson seemed boxed in by a story that was basically a fancily embellished cat - and - mouse game with pretentious quasi-religious overtones.

Seems too pretentious to me.

It's a word one person looked up and now everyone uses to make them seem... «pretentious»

This is all downbeat and somber, with an ending that seems especially pretentious.

The United States of Leland plays out like a student film from a particularly pretentious student: a tease of a picture that seems surprised that the big ideas it has aren't enough to fill its running time, and so resorts to repetition and unforgivable inflation.

Inherent Vice is a very pretentious movie that seemed like it tried so hard to be funny, but wasn't.

I'd kept my day job and my writing separate for a long time, but it seemed like a good opportunity to self - promote, and reveal myself to my colleagues as the pretentious bellend I am (just kidding, I'm not pretentious).

I'd kept my day job and my writing separate for a long time, but it seemed like a good opportunity to self - promote, and reveal myself to my colleagues as the pretentious bellend I am (just... Continue reading My «Hidden Talents» Highlighted in Loughborough College Staff Newsletter

While a publishing imprint may seem a bit unnecessary — and even pretentious — for indie authors, we recommend it to add professionalism to your brand.

I was quick to dismiss its humor and writing as lazy, if only because I thought it was so entrenched in not giving a shit that it doubled back on itself and seemed boringly pretentious.

It seems like it's tailor - made to give you a headache, but it never comes off as needlessly intimidating or pretentious.

Seems a bit high, though — Sony must know that it's a bit pretentious price their service the same as Netflix.

Their joyfulness stood in striking contrast to Reinhardt's relatively daunting if better - known Black Paintings, which suddenly seem a little pretentious.

The inspiration for many of these works seems to be Philip Guston's late figuration; the pieces play off this source material without feeling pretentious.

By contrast, «The Strange City» seemed anonymous, pretentious, and overwrought.

Julian Schnabel can be strange and hearing him talk about «being misundertood» seems so pretentious because he can do just about anything he loves to do for work and...

Julian Schnabel can be strange and hearing him talk about «being misundertood» seems so pretentious because he can do just about anything he loves to do for work and think it's not work.

Art seems to be quite a rediculous and pretentious «game» with players like this!

Your following paragraph would be simply pretentious nonsense, if it were not for the fact you seem to have succeeded in describing your own peculiar limitations.

But decorating seems so pretentious and superfluous.